Join Bay Area artist Kija Lucas for a talk exploring her photographic practice and ongoing investigations into home, heritage, and inheritance. Through the neutral lens of scientific photography, Kija Lucas uses botanicals to speak to the embedded layers of history and meaning that impact our understanding of society. Lucas’s images invite us to consider the ways our environment shapes each of us, as well as how ideas are passed down across generations and how seemingly small, intimate moments can create lasting change.

About the artist

Bay Area artist Kija Lucas uses photography to explore concepts of home, heritage, and inheritance. She is interested in how ideas are passed down and seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations. Lucas has exhibited her work at the Guardhouse with For-Site, San Francisco Camerawork, Palo Alto Art Center, International Center for Photography, San Francisco Arts Commission, Black Cube Nomadic Museum, and Mills College Art Museum. She has been an artist in residence at the de Young, Montalvo Arts Center, and Recology San Francisco.